The faithfull surveyour discovering divers errours in land measuring, and showing how to measure all manner of ground, and to plot it, and to prove the shutting by the chain onely ... / by George Atwell.

Title

The faithfull surveyour discovering divers errours in land measuring, and showing how to measure all manner of ground, and to plot it, and to prove the shutting by the chain onely ... / by George Atwell.

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Atwell, George.

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[Cambridge?] :: Printed for the author at the charges of Nathanael Rowls,

1658.

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Surveying -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Reverend, and his highly honoured friend, WILLIAM DILLINGHAM, Doctor of Divinity, and Master of Emmanuel Colledge in CAMBRIDGE.
• The Author to the Reader.
• The Author to his Book.
• Upon his wolthy Friend, Mr. George Atwell, and this his exact Method of Surveying.
• To his honoured friend, Mr. George Atwell, on his Faithfull Surveyour.
• To the praise of the Ingenuous Book of his honoured friend, Mr. George Atwell, call'd his Faithfull Surveyour.
• To his much respected Friend, Mr George Atwell, upon his Book Of Surveying, &c.
• table of contents
• Addenda & Emendanda.
  • In the Appendix.
• CHAP. I. Of errours in Land-measure.
• CHAP. II. Of making and keeping the field-book, and measuring pasture by the plain-Table.
  • How to choose their first standing in Pasture-ground for the plain-Table.
• CHAP. III. How to set down your notes in your Field-book, and to draw your station-lines by the plain-Table.
  • An Example.
  • Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, June 21. 1656.
• CHAP. IV. Of plotting at home, and of severall ways.
• CHAP. V. Of calculation or casting up.
• CHAP. VI. Of measuring a Wood.
• CHAP. VII. Of dividing or laying out of ground.
• CHAP. VIII. To measure arable-common-field-ground.
• CHAP. IX. Of hilly-grounds.
• CHAP. X. Of reducing a plot from a greater to a lesser.
• CHAP. XI. Of measuring pasture-ground by the chain onely, and that as speedily and exactly, as with any instrument whatsoever, and with less help though in misty weather, & to plot, shut, and prove, the plot thereby also.
• CHAP. XII. To measure a wood by the chain onely.
• CHAP, XIII. Of taking distances by the chain onely.
• CHAP. XIIII. To take the declination of any streight upright wall for Dialling by the chain onely.
  • Having the Azumeth, to finde the angle of the wall and Sun by help of the last figure.
• CHAP. XV. Of colouring and beautifying of plots.
• CHAP. XVI. To measure all manner of ground by the Pandoron, or any other graduated Instrument.
• CHAP. XVII. In measuring by graduated Instruments, to know if your plot will shut, or no.
• CHAP. XVIII. To take terrestrial distances by the plain-Table, or Pandoron, a by the Table.
• CHAP. XIX. To do the like by the Pandoron as it is a Quadrant, or by any graduated Instrument.
• CHAP. XX. Of altitudes and distances celestial by the Pandoron or Quadrant.
  • To take the altitude of the Sun.
  • To take the height of a star.
  • To take the distance of two stars howsoever situate.
• CHAP. XXI. Of taking of altitudes terrestrial by the Quadrant.
  • Probl. I. A distance being given and the angle of the base, to finde an altitude.
  • II. Likewise the height CB given, to finde AC the distance.
  • III. The height BC and angle A being given, to finde the Hypotenuse AB.
• CHAP. XXII. Of taking altitudes terrestrial by the Quadrant, or the Pandoron.
  • 1. Any point being given to finde whether it be level with the edge, by Gunthers, thus.
  • 2. To finde an height at one observation by Gunthers.
  • To finde the height or distance at two observations by Mr. Gunthers way, by the Quadrat.
• CHAP. XXIII. To take the situation of a plain for a dial, viz. the decli∣nation and reclination thereof by the Pandoron.
• CHAP. XXIV. Of conveying water.
• CHAP. XXV. Of Instruments for conveying of water, and their use.
• CHAP. XXVI. Of flowing of grounds.
• CHAP. XXVII. Of drayning of grounds.
  • For bogs and quagmires.
• CHAP. XXVIII. To cleanse a ditch, whether it be full of flaggs, or mud, and not empty out the water.
• CHAP. XXIX. Of cleansing a Pond six or seven pole broad being grown over with a coat of weeds, that it will near bear one, without abating the water.
• CHAP. XXX. Of cleansing of water.
• CHAP. XXXI. Of quenching an house on fire.
• CHAP. XXXII. Of keeping a fire light all night with a farthing-charge.
• CHAP. XXXIII. Of laying down of ground for pasture.
• CHAP. XXXIV. Of the choise of a rich ground.
• CHAP. XXXV. Of inriching lean ground.
• CHAP. XXXVI. Of planting Willows.
• CHAP. XXXVII. Of reducing wood-land to statute-measure, and statute to wood-land.
• CHAP. XXXVIII. To finde any scale that a plot is made by, the content being known.
• CHAP. XXXIX. Of making an Index or Table, whereby readily to finde out any ground, that ever you have measured, and to tell the quan∣tity of them an hundred years after, and draw a plot of them without going again into the field.
  • Refer this following to pag. 85. line 13.
• ¶ An Appendix to my Faithfull Surveyour.
  • CHAP. I. Of making the Rule.
    • For making the scale of board-measure.
  • CHAP. II. Of measuring of boards with the Rule.
  • CHAP. III. Of making of a Table of timber-measure for square timber, to make the scale of square timber-measure by: as also the under-measure.
    • To place this Table on the Rule.
  • CHAP. IIII. Of measuring solids, as stone, timber, &c. and first of square timber.
    • To finde the true square of a piece broader one way then another.
  • CHAP. V. Of round tmber.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the proof of these scales by Arithmetical calculation.
  • CHAP. VII. Shewing the manner of placing these upon the Rule.
    • Errour in round timber to take a quarter of the circumference for the square.
    • The use of this Table is thus.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of taper-timber, whether Conical or Pyramidal.
    • Of the Cone.
    • The discovery of severall errours in measuring the Pyramid and Cone: and first of the Pyramid.
    • Secondly in the Cone.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the making of four other lines on the flat-sides, whereof three are Mr. Gunthers lines, of numbers, sines, and tangents; and instead of the Meridian-line, which is onely usefull for Navi∣gation, whereof Carpenters make little or no use, we have added a sextant of chords.
    • First, for making the line of numbers.
    • To make the line of sines.
    • Lastly, for making the sextant of chords.